Reader's Digest 5月号の記事 "The Vaccine Hunter" からの引用です。
Marty Verel, a 59-year-old kidney transparent recipient in Ohio, should have been near the top of the list to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Yet like millions of others, he wasn't having any luck scheduling an appointment. Marty and his wife, Nancy Verel, would sit with computers on their laps trying for hours to book an appointment on different sites, all of which were slow and convoluted.
"I felt hopeless," Nancy says.
日本でも年寄の為にネットでの申し込みを若い人が助けている話をニュースで見ました。 引用文に出てきた "convoluted" ですが、渦巻きに関係する単語なのは知っていますが、ここでの意味を調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (especially of an argument, story, or sentence) extremely complex and difficult to follow.: its convoluted narrative encompasses all manner of digressions
・Collins Dictionary: If you describe a sentence, idea, or system as convoluted, you mean that it is complicated and difficult to understand.: Despite its length and convoluted plot, this is a rich and rewarding read.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: (esp. of expression in speech or writing) having a complicated structure and therefore difficult to understand: Her book is full of long, convoluted sentences.
私の地元のワクチン接種予約のサイトは "convoluted" ではありませんでしたが、とにかくアクセスが集中して、結局予約開始から15分で５月分の予約は締め切られたことが分かりました。
Marty Verel, a 59-year-old kidney transparent recipient in Ohio, should have been near the top of the list to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Yet like millions of others, he wasn't having any luck scheduling an appointment. Marty and his wife, Nancy Verel, would sit with computers on their laps trying for hours to book an appointment on different sites, all of which were slow and convoluted.
"I felt hopeless," Nancy says.
日本でも年寄の為にネットでの申し込みを若い人が助けている話をニュースで見ました。 引用文に出てきた "convoluted" ですが、渦巻きに関係する単語なのは知っていますが、ここでの意味を調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (especially of an argument, story, or sentence) extremely complex and difficult to follow.: its convoluted narrative encompasses all manner of digressions
・Collins Dictionary: If you describe a sentence, idea, or system as convoluted, you mean that it is complicated and difficult to understand.: Despite its length and convoluted plot, this is a rich and rewarding read.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: (esp. of expression in speech or writing) having a complicated structure and therefore difficult to understand: Her book is full of long, convoluted sentences.
私の地元のワクチン接種予約のサイトは "convoluted" ではありませんでしたが、とにかくアクセスが集中して、結局予約開始から15分で５月分の予約は締め切られたことが分かりました。
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